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A conversation with the stand-up and actor (and writer/director/producer) about Louie and failure and money and burgers and Bill Clinton<p><i>Originally published in the June/July 2011 issue</i><p><i>In Louis's Infiniti G35, on the way to get a bite to eat at the Comedy Cellar in New York.</i><p><b>LOUIS C.K.:</b> I love this …

Russia’s official entry for next year’s foreign language film Oscar is surprisingly subversive<p> Andrei Zvyagintsev: ‘Living in Russia is like being in a minefield’<p>In the current climate, any film boasting official support from the Russian Ministry of Culture may be looked upon with suspicion. Yet …

Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari says expensive human enhancements will lead to a society more unequal than ever<p>Homo sapiens were not always so special. In the ancient past, other human forms lived beside us. The Neanderthals in Eurasia. Small, hobbit-like humans in Indonesia. The mysterious …

The Rosetta spacecraft has discovered all the elements of life in the gases jetting from a comet as it approaches the Sun.<p>The ingredients that make up amino acids, life’s building blocks, are all contained in the tail of the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P/C-G). Among them are methane, …

WASHINGTON -- White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough on Sunday pushed back on claims that the Obama administration threatened prosecution against the families of two American journalists brutally murdered by Islamic State militants in recent weeks.<p>The parents of James Foley and Steven Sotloff …

http://vod-pro-ww-live.akamaized.net/mps_h264_hi/public/news/world/1106000/1106700_h264_1500k.mp4?__gda__=1518166415_2b57c617f27b646571f35f0589cddef1<p><b>The BBC's Emmanuel Igunza visits a South Sudanese village where people have resorted to eating water lilies, amid fears that a famine is looming.</b><p>It is …

The script usually goes like this: Shocking incident happens. Political leaders and advocates all promise changes so it doesn’t happen again. The public’s attention moves on. Nothing happens.<p>This time, though, there’s hope that Ferguson will be different.<p>Lawmakers and advocates who have been …

Dyson is teasing a big announcement for September 4, and it released a new video teaser to get people thinking about what might be unveiled. The video shows a lab as seen from the perspective of a particularly wide-angle lens, along with quick bursts of schematic imagery that’s somewhat suggestive …

Don’t believe the hate. While it’s a juicy narrative that rich people spoil everything the common folk hold dear, there are plenty of tech bigwigs at Burning Man that work hard to contribute and embody the event’s ideals of inclusion. And the thing is, what they do has little impact on Burning Man …

Carlos Enrique Londoño laughs at the Ku Klux Klan recruitment flier recently left on the driveway of his suburban New York home. It's unlikely the group would accept him.<p>"I'm Colombian and dark-skinned," said Londoño, a painter and construction worker who has lived in Hampton Bays on Long Island …

Home Office’s 'deradicalisation' scheme, Channel, has used at least three staff who are closely connected to hard-line Salafi groups<p>Radicals with links to an extremist mosque are being employed by the Government to advise young Muslims at risk of travelling to Syria and Iraq, The Telegraph can …

The British authorities suspect a rapper from London, known as L Jinny, of being one of the ISIL militants who beheaded the journalist James Foley in a video released earlier this week, reports the Independent. Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary is thought to be one of three British militants—dubbed the …

Boston-based GlobalPost said on Thursday that the Foley family had agreed to release the email that it received from Islamic State a week before the video of his execution was released on Tuesday.<p>The publication said it chose "to publish it in full in the interest of transparency and to fully tell …

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian human rights activist Irom Sharmila, on hunger strike for the last 14 years in protest against alleged army atrocities, was arrested again on Friday two days after being released from hospital detention.<p>Irom Sharmila Chanu, 34, reacts during an interview with Reuters in …

Comedian Henry to play the revered and troubled US standup and actor in a play directed by Michael Buffong<p> Lenny Henry, Idris Elba among stars urging more TV ethnic diversity cash<p>Actor and comedian Lenny Henry is set to appear in a play about the late US comedian Richard Pryor at the National …

A policy of legalising unplanned structures if they meet minimum standards means new arrivals to the Vietnamese capital can build homes without official permission, and get basic services<p>To an outsider, Hanoi can seem like a city trying to consume itself. Jackhammers chatter and circular saws whine …

These sodas are destined to fail.<p>As the name suggests, these products contain fewer calories than a regular can of soda. For example, "Coca-Cola Life," which was piloted in select South American markets and will hit the United Kingdom in September, has around 89 calories per can versus 140 calories …